Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Its free!
Its opensource!
Its makes development faster!
Its amazing!
Faster development of web application with an ease.
AJAX based app develop in java and run in all browser.
Works well with Android/iPhone.

Google has done preaching on their site and blog about GWT, find more details their.
Ofcourse believers of those preaching also wrote a lot about it on their blog(s), website(s), papers, etc,
So, moving to example.:

Pre-requisetes
Eclipse, Java.

Download and install GWT plugin for eclipse, in my case its for indigo and link is as follows:
http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/3.7

RootPanle is a panel to which all other widgets must ultimately be added.
RootPanels are never created directly. Rather, they are accessed via get().
Most applications will add widgets to the default root panel in their EntryPoint.onModuleLoad() methods.

After that right client on GwtDemoAppClient.java and open with GWT Designer
We are ready for adding the components by drag and drop.

I have selected LayoutPanel as it allows its children to be positioned using arbitrary constraints.

After adding the components you can see the generated code:

Add few componets to the layoutPanel and test the demo without web app to see it as preview.

If its fine than go ahead and create a web app/deploy to internal app server which is jetty.
Else go and add/remove/update components in the panel.

Change the default html content of GwtWebAppDemo.html in the war/WEB-INF folder.

Right click on the project and click on Run As Web Application
It will start new tab as development mode, copy the link and paste into your browser

For the first time it will ask for installing the plugin for gwt.

Install it and see the application running.

Do remember to close the client running the the IDE before launching it again.

It does the conversion of the java code. we can write an AJAX client application in the Java while using the most preffered tools for development like eclipse, intellij, jprofile etc. Ultimately the code in the production will be converted to javascript and it will handle all the behavioural requirement of a particular browser.

It provides development and production modes for the development. You can debug your application faster and without the problems which we face in the typical web application frontend development. If you aren't running Java on back end, you can use GWT to retrieve JSON or XML.

I am not sure that ASP/.net framework has this kind of capability now!